Commandant J.Jacobsz.
"3.

Commandant A.Bester.
"It thus appears that all my generals and chief commanding officers are chosen as Representatives to attend at the Meeting of Vereeniging, on the 15th inst., and according to our mutual agreement at Pretoria, an armistice will be given from to-day (11th May, 1902) in all districts of the Orange Free State up to a date which shall be agreed upon after the close of the Meeting at Vereeniging.

Any answer, previous to noon of the 11th inst., will reach me at Brandfort.
"Commander-in-Chief, Orange Free State Armies." In answer to this I received the following telegram:-- "IMPERIAL RESIDENCY, PRETORIA, _May 12th_.
"TO GENERAL DE WET, BRANDFORT.
"I have given orders, according to our Agreement, that from to-morrow, the 13th inst., all commandos, whose leaders or chief officers have been chosen to attend the Meeting at Vereeniging, shall be exempted from being attacked by my columns during the absence of their leaders, in so far as such commandos withhold from offensive operations.

But that does not imply that outposts cannot be taken prisoner in case they should approach our lines.
"KITCHENER." It was rather surprising to me that Lord Kitchener, in this telegram, spoke only of an armistice beginning on the 13th of May, because in his telegram of the 25th he had agreed that there should be an armistice from the 11th of May.

I heard also from officers of Heilbron, Vrede, and Bethlehem, whom I met, on the evening of the 14th of May, at Wolvehoek Station, that the English columns had operated in their districts on the 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th.